Leslie you are a wise lady to be thinking ahead. Why not arrange a prepaid cremation now with instructions what you what done with your ashes.

Next your GP would be involved in signing the Death Certificate and Cremation Form set an appointment and ask hm/tell him your problem and tell him who will  be handling the cremation so he knows what to do and who to contact I.e. Your solicitor  and also tell him who your solicitor is who will need to be informed as a sort of next of kin.

Even if your death is unexpected as long as you have identification on you your Dr. will always be contacted by the police after they check with Medicare who your Dr. is.

I hope that helps you but join us on here you can be reclusive and come and go only some of us actually know another one on here in real life, you may enjoy it.

Leslie,

I repeat vivity's invitation to join us. You will be very welcome.

Leslie I am sure you have a lot of life experiences , we all do at our age please share some of them with us . You will also find a lot of humour on here that will give you a giggle. 

Leslie I have a cousin by the same name he is 65 and loves riding his motor bike on Dartmoor you are not him are you?

We are in a dilemma as to how on earth our kids will do what has to be done, when we fall off the perch.  Nobody gets along well with any of the others and all  5 of them the same Heaven help us lol.

Lesley, worth thinking about Vivity's advice re prepaid funeral as the money is kept in trust untill required so surely has to be safe.

Many have said not to get involved with The Public Trustee and my husband and I feel this way also.

Welcome to the forum - we are a diverse lot but we agree a lot of the time, and I think agreeing to disagree as we are "growing up" :) at least some of the time lol.

If you are a lady I think you love flowers and if a bloke well most blokes also like flowers.

My goodness, I certainly didn't expect all this - thank you so much, each and every one of you.  

To clear up the confusion as to my sex...  I was named after a a close friend of my Mum who was killed early in the war, and although I came out a girl, they kept the spelling as a tribute to him.

Such good advice, and it hadn't even occurred to me to approach my doctor, thank you, and my thoughts, too, are to keep clear of all the palava going down the public trustee route.  

Am still tossing up whether to go for a pre-paid cremation or join one of those funeral insurance schemes but a little bit more homework should have me not far from a decision - hard finding a no-frills deal as I don't need much -  no service, no flowers, just a pick-up after they've taken whatever's worth recycling, then a quick burn and a scatter'll do me fine...  more work, more thought's going into preserving my genealogy file.

Thanks again for the warm welcome.

Leslie

Leslie did you ever. Work in a career I mean .

Seggie. Hello Leslie. As others have said, join us here and you won't feel so alone. My funeral was prepaid years ago and it is such a relief to know that when I am flying up above (hopefully), no one will have had to worry about this or that. I even worked out the music (having a bit of a weep but at least I know it won't be 'roll out the barrel', and now the family won't have to even work out the flowers.  Maybe I was a boy scout in another life? Whatever, hopefully I've done the right thing.  As Phyl. (lovely lady) says, keep away from the State Trustees.  If you can possibly pre-arrange your funeral, then see your doctor and is there no one who can help out with any small details? If not, the funeral home will arrange it all for you. Most of them are very helpful. Love to you all.

Always lovely to too you Seggs. Would like to see more posts " by Seggie"  though.

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Lesley we all have a lovely friend in Seggie.

Sorry to go off topic folks but Seggs. have you heard anything re Doodlebug?

Seggie. Hello all. No, Phyl., I had an email from Doodlebug's relatives and am still hoping to hear from them once things settle down.  If I don't hear anything within a couple of weeks, I'll email them again.  It is so sad as we were getting on like two peas in a pod. 

How's everyone coping in the heat? I heard Victoria is like Dubai at the moment.

Again, love to all.

A bit of black humor re cremation.  My late father (7 years ago he died) was to put it kindly "very careful with money" and before the GST came in he prepaid for his cremation.

He was not a religious man and wanted to be taken from the home straight to the crematorium and wanted no religious service of any kind as he was an aethiest.  My mother had already passed on.

We respected his decision and went along with his wishes.

A few weeks after his cremation we received a cheque from the RSL and we had a giggle when we saw the amount as it completely  covered the cost of the cremation and his estate even made a  small profit.

I have yet to hear of anyone else who managed this.   I am sure he would be having a quiet chuckle wherever he is !

I too wish to have a very simple cremation: when I die I would like to be placed on a cardbox coffin and sent directly from the hospital to the crematorioum, this way the expenses (or prepaid expenses) will be quite insignificant: wrong, you also need to pay for *death certificate, *a referee certificate, *transport to the crematorioum, *an urn, etc. I don't think it is possible to prepaid all of these items.

All I know is there was not a single bill when my father passed away.  He was taken straight from the home to the crematorium as far as I know.  

I would look into this Henry as it was possible in Queenland.